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An update of progress as of December 16, 2011 is provided (in italics) for the review of the Trustees.

An update of final progress as of June 11, 2012 is provided in bold italics.

The first three years of the Long Range Strategic Plan (LRSP)
focused on creating a culture of meaningful change. The Board of
Trustees of Bozeman School District #7 endorses this implementation framework for 2011-12 to continue progress on the LRSP. The following are components of the framework:

Enhance collaboration with Montana State University and other agencies/organizations.

Effective communication with all stakeholders important to Bozeman Public Schools.

Update 12/16/11: Functioning in a culture of meaningful change includes:

Each school and department has developed Action Plans
intended to personalize learning opportunities for students. See 1.01
Personalize Learning Action Plans for schools/departments on the Action
Plan Matrix.

The Instructional Coach model was expanded to
include both middle schools and the high school with five Instructional
Coaches in grades K-5, one for grades 6-8 and two at BHS. This
research-based model is providing significant job-embedded professional
development for teachers. Schools report that coaches are being
accessed by 90%+ of their staff.

Professional development for teachers has been
personalized allowing individual professional development plans for
twelve hours of training to be agreed upon by the teacher and school
administrator.

Consensus process is being used for the Teacher
Standards and Evaluation Committee and the School Calendar Task Force.
Use of consensus for large group initiatives has proven successful in
our district and continues to be promising in our work with the two
groups described. See 2.03 HR Evaluation Process on the Action Plan
Matrix.

The district will use the consensus process for
teacher negotiations in the spring 2012. See 2.05 HR Negotiate
Agreements on the Action Plan Matrix.

Outreach to President Waded Cruzado and Provost
Martha Potvin, established regularly scheduled leadership meetings with
the intention of broadening our relationship with MSU. These
discussions have led to increased dual credit offerings for BHS
students. Professional development for the Bridger Performance-Based
strategies grew out of the cooperative atmosphere established. Planning
is currently occurring to develop pre K-16 collaboration on the Common
Core State Standards and College and Career Readiness.

A deeper partnership is being developed with
Gallatin College Program, emphasizing new efforts to establish career
oriented two-year post-secondary training in the Gallatin Valley. The
Superintendent, Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction,
and Director of Adult and Community Education for Bozeman Public
Schools serve on the Gallatin College Program Advisory Board. The
Superintendent and Director of Adult and Community Education for Bozeman
Public Schools participated in a University planning retreat to
redesign and invigorate two-year higher education opportunities for
Montana students on December 15-16, 2011.

Superintendent Advisory Councils for Parents,
Teachers, Classified Staff, Students and Business Community meet on a
regular schedule to provide effective two-way communication. See 3.01
SPT Transparency/Accountability/Communication on the Action Plan Matrix.

Superintendent and Board have created a public
information campaign to "Tell Our Story" in the community. Currently 24
presentation sessions have been held with stakeholders involving over
500 community members. A YouTube video has been created to allow access
to the "Tell Our Story" presentation for anyone interested. The video
is on our website homepage at Tell Our Story.

Update 6/11/12:

Each school and department developed Status Reports for 1.01 Personalize Learning Action Plans. These Status Reports can be reviewed on the Status Report Matrix.

The Instructional Coaching model continues to
work successfully as expanded in our elementary, middle and high school.
The effectiveness of using instructional coaches who embed
professional development in all environments is reflected in continued
engagement of teachers for individual and small group professional
development, use of coaches by principals for whole staff professional
development, and use of coaches by central office for district-wide
professional development. A review of school and department Status Reports for 1.01 Personalize Learning Action Plans will reveal improved student performance.

Consensus process was used to make progress in
both the Teacher Standards and Evaluation Committee and School Calendar
Task Force. See the Status Report for 3.04 HR Consensus Process
2011-12. Relationships developed by using the Consensus process for
several years allowed the District and Bozeman Education Association to
settle contract terms for 2012-13 by plainly describing issues, making
decisions in the best interest of students, and determining what will be
worked on during the school year next year.

Collaboration with MSU continues in a deep way.
Gallatin College will expand its use of the Bozeman High School
facility next year and offer 2-year transfer degrees that relate to
College and Career readiness. Dual credit opportunities have been
expanded for 2012-13 to include an Educator/Teacher course in which an
MSU education professor will teach at BHS. Further exploration of
opportunities continues. Ongoing dialogue about the MSU Innovation
Campus (a future Technology Park) has included the Superintendent and
Assistant Superintendents.

Superintendent Advisory Councils (Students,
Parents, Teachers, Classified, and Business) all completed the year with
surveys indicating the value of this way of communicating District
issues. Suggestions were made to continue each in the 2012-13 school
year.

"Tell Our Story...," "Did You Know ...," and
School Election presentations (41 community presentations to over 1000
citizens) all provided expanded opportunities to engage the Bozeman
community to improve understanding of important information about our
District.

2. Creating a culture of opportunityLooks Like...

Attention to the next 3-5 year planning horizon by focusing and compacting Strategic Objectives to best support personalized education, standards, Response to Intervention (RtI), and Technology.

Creative thinking to see things from a new perspective.

Collaborative (subject matter, grade level, and partners, e.g. the Optimization Task Force) team building within the school district and with our partners to improve student learning.

Monitoring innovation.

Alignment of resources to advance progress on LRSP.

Update 12/16/11: Progress to create a culture of opportunity includes:

The LRSP Committee (Denise Hayman, Bruce Grubbs,
Ed Churchill, Kirk Miller, Marilyn King) met on 6/20/11 to review the
LRSP Implementation Framework 2010-11 Report and discuss the LRSP
Implementation Framework 2011-12. The Board dialogued about attention
to the next 3-5 year planning horizon and aligning resources to advance
progress on the LRSP during the Board Retreat on 7/20/11, setting the
tone for establishing this part of the LRSP Implementation Framework
2011-12.

Executive Council worked with input from the
Instructional Cabinet in the spring/summer of 2011 to establish a draft
of the LRSP Implementation Framework 2011-12.

Draft LRSP Implementation Framework 2011-12 was
shared with the entire BSD7 education team requesting input in
August-September 2011. The Framework was revised to reflect input
collected. The Framework was confirmed by the Board of Trustees in the
Superintendent’s Report at the 10/11/11 Board meeting.

Strategic Objectives
were reviewed and revised (moved from 46 to 21 Strategic Objectives) to
reflect more focus and provide additional flexibility. This created a
new 3-5 year planning horizon for the LRSP.

The Balanced Scorecard and Action Plans have been updated in order to best align resources around priorities in the LRSP.

Creative thinking to see things from a new perspective examples and monitoring those innovations, include:

Bridger Alternative Program is piloting a
performance-based system to best prepare students for achieving
competency in the Bridger Expected Academic Results. See 1.07 BAP
College and Career Ready on the Action Plan Matrix.

Development of awareness and
understanding by all staff of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS).
See 1.07 CI College and Career Ready – Common Core State Standards on
the Action Plan Matrix.

Implementation of the Pearson Inform, the
district performance management system to provide data and results for
decision making. See 1.02 CI Best Practices Instruction – General
C&I on the Action Plan Matrix.

Plan for new elementary school to meet
growing enrollment in grades K-5. See 2.01 OP Enrollment, Placement
& Facility Decisions on the Action Plan Matrix.

Collaborative team building within the school district and with our partners to improve student learning include:

Optimization of Relationships and
Resources Task Force has cooperated with the Regional Educational
Service Agency for Region IV (RESA4U) to prepare to promote a regional
service agency model for a 12 county, 70 school district, 35,000 student
region. The purpose is to improve student learning and increase
efficiency for all districts involved. The model will use SB 329
incentive funds to establish a multi-district cooperative with
governance structure to provide initial services of professional
development, hardware/software purchase and bulk supply purchase. A
stakeholders meeting of the 70 school district is scheduled for 1/5/12
in Townsend. Trustee Lusin, Superintendent Miller, and Assistant
Superintendent King have provided leadership and organization for this
effort. See 3.06 BD Advocacy on the Action Plan Matrix.

Chamber School-Business Partnership
Committee has become very active in connecting the business community
needs with our schools, Gallatin College Program, and MSU. In order to
promote visibility and increase membership on the School-Business
Partnership Committee, Jamie Vollmer (international business/education
speaker) will come to Bozeman on 2/29/12 to present "Schools Can’t Do it
Alone" to the business community and in other venues for the public.
His presentation ties directly to our Tell Our Story
information campaign and our communications plan for the spring school
election. Trustee Grubbs has provide leadership and organization to the
Chamber School-Business Partnership Committee. See 3.01 SPT
Transparency/Accountability/Communication on the Action Plan Matrix.

Alignment of resources to advance progress on the LRSP is underway. Examples are:

The creation of 98 Action Plans by our
team of 750 promotes those elements that are most important for
improving student learning. This naturally leads to aligning the
available budget with those elements that are most important.

Trustees approved 14 new course offerings
at Bozeman High Schools on 12/12/11 intended to increase opportunities
for College and Career Readiness.

The Budget Development process has
started using budget calendar timelines approved by the Board.
Materials will be distributed to principals in January to collect input
on needs. Review of revenue allocations from the state and feds is
underway in order to determine budget parameters and school election
requests.

Update 6/11/12:

The LRSP Committee (Denise Hayman, Bruce
Grubbs, Ed Churchill, Kirk Miller, Marilyn King, and Rob Watson) met on
June 6, 2012 to review progress of the LRSP for 2011-12 and make
recommendations for 2012-13. The Board of Trustees, at their meeting on
June 11, 2012, will consider adopting the LRSP Annual Report 2011-12 (including the LRSP Implementation Plan Report 2011-12), and review a draft LRSP Implementation Plan 2012-13.

Focusing and compacting the Strategic Objectives (from 46 to 21) as revised has helped the District to refine progress in the LRSP Status Reports outlined on the LRSP Status Report Matrix.

Creative thinking to see things from a new perspective examples and monitoring those innovations, include:

The Bridger Alternative Program pilot of
a proficiency-based system to best prepare students to achieve
competency in content standards made great progress. Student
performance is measured by meeting proficiency standards and the time to
accomplish this is variable. See 1.07 BAP College and Career Ready on
the Status Report Matrix.

All District staff have achieved understanding of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). See 1.07 CI College and Career Ready – Common Core State Standards on the Status Report Matrix.
An implementation plan for the next three years has been developed to
provide a road map for continued progress in the effective use of these
standards.

Implementation of Pearson Inform, the
district performance management system to provide data and results for
decision-making, has accomplished beginning steps of a soft roll out
with BSD7 staff. See 1.02 CI Best Practices Instruction – General
C&I on the Status Report Matrix.

Plan for new elementary school to meet
growing enrollment in grades K-5 reached the critical stage resulting in
a $26.375 million bond approving land, a new elementary school,
expansion to the support services building and renovation/expansion of
Longfellow elementary school. See 2.01 OP Enrollment, Placement &
Facility Decisions on the Status Report Matrix.

Collaborative team building within the school district and with our partners to improve student learning include:

The Bozeman Board effectively created
and organized RESA4U (Region IV Education Service Agency) to optimize
resources while promoting high student achievement. Fifty-five of 70
school districts in the greater Gallatin area have joined this work.
Legislation that ultimately passed the 2011 Legislative Session, SB 329,
provides $2 million in funding for development of multi-district
education cooperatives across Montana using the template of the work led
by the Bozeman Trustees. RESA4U has been established using the
incentive funding from member districts. RESA4U offered excellent
professional development opportunities this school year and will begin
to offer services for bulk purchase, and technology development to all
member schools next school year. BSD7 is the fiscal agent for the new
multidistrict cooperative. An executive director is in the process of
being hired for RESA4U. See 3.06 BD Advocacy on the Status Report Matrix.

Great progress has been made in
collaborative relationships with the Chamber School-Business Partnership
Committee, MSU, Gallatin College and many other efforts. See 3.01 SPT
Transparency/Accountability/Communication on the Status Report Matrix.

Alignment of resources to advance progress on the LRSP is underway. Examples are:

98 Status Reports
by created by our team of 750 describe those elements that are most
important for improving student learning. This aligns available budget
with those elements that are most important.

Staffing based on student requests for
course offerings at Bozeman High School is aligned with opportunities
for College and Career Readiness as outlined in the LRSP.

The Budget Development process has been
completed with requests made by buildings and departments. The
Comprehensive Annual Report (CAFR) was prepared and approved by the
Trustees along with the District audit report for 2010-11. MQEC
settlement with the state allowed the inflation factor of 2.43% as
outlined in law for the school funding formula 2012-13. The Elementary
District passed a $235,000 general fund operating levy. Budget requests
have been aligned with the LRSP to create allocations for staffing and
program needs for 2012-13.

A culture of opportunity has a good start as a result of the actions taken. Work will be continued in the 2012-13 school year.

The Bozeman Public Schools Leadership Team is enthused about
launching year four of the Plan and energizing our team to remain
committed to long-term strategic change that inspires and ensures high
achievement so every student can succeed.

Achievement of progress on the Implementation
Framework is the collective, collaborative work of our entire education
team at Bozeman Public Schools. We will continue to use this Framework
to guide us in 2012. We will continue to use an updated Framework to guide us in 2012-13.